Edinburgh comedy notebook: Magicians pull out funny new tricks
Magic acts are reinventing the genre with show-and-tells, Facebook mind-reading and a 'young Jack Dee in a dragon suit'Magic shows are benefiting from the recent revival of variety " there seem to be more of them than ever in the comedy section of the fringe programme this year " but do they really count as comedy? I guess that depends entirely on the quality of the patter; with such an enduring and often hackneyed f…